May 29, 2012 11:57 AM

Perhaps the best way to describe it is Day-Glo. There are quite a lot in my garden and seem to inhabit the leaf-litter rather than the plants. It seemed a bit languid and floppy while I photgraphed it but regained its vigour upon release!. If you look at the attached photos you can see that it has orange pedipalps and a large brown stripe on the underside of the abdomen.

It's an Enoplognatha, most likely E. ovata. It is sometimes referred to as the candy stripe spider because some have vivid red-purple stripes on the abdomen, most striking when adult. But yours is just a plain Jane version

If I remember correctly, the red stripe can often appear only as the spider becomes adult or near adult but I'm not sure about that. I have a load of young ones in my garden at present and none are stripey.